The Daily Beans

In the Hot Notes: the illegitimate Supreme Court killed President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan and gutted LGBTQ+ rights on Friday; the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congressional Republicans must pay their mask fines; Fox News settled with Abby Grossberg for $12M; a January 6th defendant is arrested near Obama’s home with guns and 400 rounds of ammunition; a federal judge has ordered the Proud Boys to pay $1M to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

Published: 5 July 2025

Friday, July 4th, 2025 Today, the Billionaire Bailout Bill has passed the House after the Trump regime turns the Republican holdouts and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries filibusters the vote for over 8 hours; 20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials; a judge grants Mr Abrego’s request for an order reminding the government that it has to stop making extrajudicial statements; the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that would ban transgender girls from girls sports; a man has been arrested for trying to bring a ghost gun into a Capitol office building; the Pico Rivera school board is demanding answers after they say video shows 10 ICE agents urinating in "public view" on high school grounds. Dana is out and about!

Published: 4 July 2025

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 Today, an insurrectionist has been given a cushy job at the Department of Justice in the weaponization task force; the Justice Department explores bringing criminal charges against state election officials; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s ban on asylum; Mr. Abrego has filed his amended complaint on Judge Xinis’ docket; the University of Pennsylvania has revoked a transgender swimmers records in a deal with the Trump Administration; CBS and Paramount have bent the knee and agreed to pay Trump $16M; the Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down the state's 1849 near-total abortion ban; the private sector lost 33,000 jobs - nearly 150K short of expectations; the new Senate provision in the Billionaire Bailout Bill would throw 17M americans off health insurance; and Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about!

Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2025

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Today, JD Vance cast the tie breaking vote to pass the billionaire bailout bill which now heads back to the House for another vote, Donald Trump wants to use the espionage act against members of the media, a Reagan appointed judge says he will not tolerate retribution against witnesses in an upcoming trial about whether he will block the government from targeting student activists, a new study reveals that the elimination of USAID could result in 14M deaths over five years, an appeals court allows a previously detained researcher to remain free, Justice Alito takes pride in gay bashing from the bench, Mamdani is officially the winner of the NYC mayoral primary after ranked choice voting is tallied, and Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about!

Published: 2 July 2025

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 Today, as we feared, the Trump administration is building a national citizenship database; two firefighters are dead after a Coeur d’Alene man set a fire to lure them to the wilderness and then opened fire; two teen girls were shot near the Stonewall Inn after pride celebrations; Senator Thom Tillis shreds the Billionaire Bailout Bill now that he’s no longer running for reelection; the Trump administration is suing Los Angeles over sanctuary policies; the Supreme Court punts on the Louisiana redistricting case; after decades in the US Iranians are arrested by DHS; the DoJ announces plans to prioritize cases revoking citizenship; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Published: 1 July 2025

Monday, June 30th, 2025 Today, Republicans advance the Billionaire Bailout Bill in the Senate after promising hold-outs they could gut a provision of the Affordable Care Act as Tommy Tuberville calls for the parliamentarian to be fired; the Supreme Court kills the lower court’s ability to issue universal injunctions AND allows parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books; Donald Trump threatens to withhold payments to Israel unless their courts drop the charges against Bibi Netanyahu; Cuomo will stay in the New York City mayoral race after conceding to Zohran Mamdani; Don Bacon of Nebraska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina say they will not run in 2026; the President of the University of Virginia has resigned because of pressure from the Trump administration; Republicans in the Senate have blocked the Iran war powers resolution; the Trump administration has freed a three time felon and five time deported migrant in exchange for his testimony against Kilmar Abrego; Governor Gavin Newsom sues fox news for 787M dollars for defamation; over 100,000 people marched in a Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Published: 30 June 2025

Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson during the last minute hearing on the 1/6 attack on the Capitol building; Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison; There's no chance that Supreme Court justices could be charged with perjury during their confirmation hearings; Turkey has dropped its opposition of Finland and Sweden joining NATO; and filmmaker Alex Holder has been contacted by the Fulton County DA Fani Willis; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Randall Eliason

Published: 29 June 2025

Friday, June 28th, 2024 Still no ruling on immunity from the Supreme Court, and the decisions are now rolling over into next week; Felix Sater lost his money laundering trial to the tune of $32M; Roger Sollenberger from Daily Beast got a records request showing Jim Comer wrote over 2,000 emails using an alias; the former school police chief of Uvalde has been indicted for his role in the botched response to the Robb Elementary shooting; the Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12; CNN has banned White House press pool reporters from the debate; plus Allison delivers your Good News. John Fugelsang

Published: 28 June 2025

Friday, June 27th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis orders an expedited briefing schedule in both the government’s motion to dismiss the Abrego case and Mr. Abrego’s motion to be moved to Maryland and to block DHS from deporting him; Judge Murphy rules that he does have jurisdiction to consider an amended brief from Gavin Newsom to stop the deployment of the military in California; the Senate parliamentarian rejects a key Medicaid cuts in the billionaire Bailout Bill; Kenneth Chesebro is disbarred in the state of New York; the Supreme Court ruled in favor of South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood; Mayor Eric Adams hires a campaign consultant accused of strangling his girlfriend in a SoHo hotel; the White House is going to limit intelligence sharing with Congress; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Published: 27 June 2025

Thursday, June 26th, 2025 Today, Republicans capitulated to the lies that spewed forth from the mouth of Emil Bove in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Wednesday; Zohran Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the New York City mayoral primary sending another message that people power is strong than the political money machine; the Trump administration is kicking the National Science Foundation out of its offices as HUD moves in; a suspect linked to a Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing has died in federal custody; Representative LaMonica McIver has pled not guilty to the ridiculous charges brought against her by parking lot lawyer Alina Habba; a federal judge has halted Trump’s bid to end collective bargaining rights for federal workers; a judge holds a hearing over bail conditions for Kilmar Abrego Garcia; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Published: 26 June 2025

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 Today, former DoJ lawyer Erez Reuveni issues a bombshell whistleblower account of Emil Bove’s intentional defiance of court orders on the eve of his judicial confirmation hearing; US intelligence assessments indicate that Iran’s nuclear sites were not destroyed and they can be back up and running in a few months; Florida is paving over the Everglades to build its own concentration camp; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s termination of University of California research grants; the Senate parliamentarian nixes the public lands selloff in the Billionaire Bailout Bill; four tech execs are sworn in as lieutenant colonels in the Army; Senator Lisa Murkowski signals she may turn Independent and caucus with Democrats; House Dems choose youth over seniority in the House Oversight ranking member election; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 Today, Iran fires missiles at US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq in what is seen as a performative retaliation to Trump’s unconstitutional bombing of Iranian nuclear enrichment sites; the Supreme Court has blocked a judge's order forbidding removal of immigrants to third countries; lawyers for Gavin Newsom have asked the district court to consider a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s deployment of the military to California as a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act; Democrats in the Senate are winning their arguments before the parliamentarian on multiple provisions in the Billionaire Bailout Bill; ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; Democrats will protest Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center with a pride event; there is an underground resistance inside the VA against Trump’s ban on care for transgender veterans; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 Today, the US dropped twelve 30,000 pound bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites, the 9th Circuit allows Trump to maintain control of the National Guard in California, a judge ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a federal appeals court rules Louisiana’s law requiring schools to display the ten commandments is unconstitutional, the Senate Parliamentarian says the court bond provision in the billionaire bailout bill is against the rules, ICE agents scatter in San Diego during a Catholic bishop’s visit to immigration court, the Dodgers pledge to give a million dollars to immigrant families, a Minnesota gender affirming care law is left untouched by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling; and Allison delivers Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the fourth committee hearing on the attempted coup is today at 1 PM ET; a DeSantis judge committed a crime by lying on her state Supreme Court application; a federal judge rejects a Proud Boys motion for pretrial release; and the fascist Texas Republican platform has been released; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 22 June 2025

Friday, June 23rd, 2023 In the Hot Notes: another Trump aide who helped coordinate the fraudulent elector scheme was seen headed into Jack Smith’s 1/6 grand jury today; the House of Representatives has censured Adam Schiff; the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been scheduled for September; more Supreme Court corruption; the sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 21 June 2025

Friday, June 20th, 2025 Today, trump privately approved attack plans for Iran but has withheld the final order; the State Department is requiring students with visa interviews to make their social media public; a federal judge has blocked Trump from tying state transportation funds to immigration enforcement; police are investigating a break in at the home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman; another one of Elon Musk's rockets exploded; DHS issues new guidance for lawmaker inspections of detention facilities; Judge Hanna Dugan’s trial has been removed from the calendar as the judge considers the motion to dismiss the charges; the Los Angeles Dodgers refuse entry to ICE officials; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

Thursday, June 19th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court deals a stunning setback to trans rights as it upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare for minors; cuts to FEMA are hammering communities that voted for Trump; the fed refuse to cut interest rates despite pressure from Trump to do so; the Small Business Administration is flying the far right appeal to heaven flag; the President is really mad a Pete Hegseth for his squeaky squeaky tank parade; Russ Vought eyes a rarely used power to override Congressional spending; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2025

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 Today, the 9th Circuit heard arguments over Trump’s National Guard deployment to California; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s passport policy targeting transgender people; Trump has left the G7 early to return to Washington as he tells everyone to evacuate Tehran; a counter protester arrested at Nashville’s No Kings march has been hit with gun charges; Senator Mike Lee has taken down his tweets about the Minnesota assassin after being confronted by Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar; New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by ICE on trumped up charges of assaulting an agent; a federal judge has held the Florida Attorney General in civil contempt; for the second time the Government Accountability Office has found the Trump administration illegally impounded funds; the NAACP is refusing to invite the president to their annual convention for the first time in its 116 year history; Trump reverses course on arresting migrants at farms and hotel; Mike Lindell has to pay $2.3M for defaming the Dominion Voting CEO; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2025

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 Today, Vance Boelter is hit with six federal felonies and the Hennepin County DA says they will seek first degree murder charges; new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats and unmarried veterans; Gavin Newsom’s bid for an injunction barring Trump from federalizing the National Guard is fully briefed ahead of today’s hearing; a federal judge has declared Trump's National Institutes of Health cuts to be illegal; the sudden deployment of US air tankers to the Middle East raises questions; Donald Trump calls for Russia to re-join the G7; Donald Trump accidentally drops a signed UK-US trade deal and mistakenly calls it a deal with the EU; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Monday, June 16th, 2025 Today, a MAGA extremist posing as law enforcement shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses Saturday morning; millions of Americans took the streets this weekend for the No Kings protests while Trump’s military birthday parade was a bust; detainees rose up and some escaped from the private ICE detention center; Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver were arrested for trying to inspect; the House has voted to kill funding for PBS and NPR; Mamdani and Lander cross endorse one another in the New York City mayoral race; Marines carried out the first KNOWN detention of a civilian in Los Angeles; US troops begin detaining people in the national defense zone at the border; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025

June 13, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Donald Trump and Walt Nauta will be arraigned on 38 federal felony charges in Miami at 3 PM; a press coalition has petitioned the court to allow audio and video recordings in the federal Trump proceedings; the DoJ seeks 14 years in prison for the 1/6 rioter who drove a stun gun into officer Fanone’s neck; Senator Blumenthal has launched a probe into the LIV PGA merger; Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are hit with a $5.1M FCC fine; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 15 June 2025

June 13,2022 Hot Notes: a Daily Beans exclusive about Enrique Tarrio’s phones; the 1/6 Committee releases the witness list for this morning’s hearing; more emails from Ginni Thomas to Arizona lawmakers are released; Rudy Giuliani is hit with ethics charges in DC over election fraud claims; 31 white supremacists have been arrested in Idaho and charged with planning a riot at a Pride event; a bipartisan group of senators reach a deal on gun legislation; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Adam Klasfeld

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2025

Friday, June 13th, 2025 Today, California Senator Alex Padilla was tacked and handcuffed after identifying himself to ask Kristi Noem during a press conference; there was a hearing Thursday in Judge Breyer’s courtroom about the injunction motion filed by Governor Newsom; National Guard and Marines are deeply troubled by their deployment to California; a federal judge rules that the government can’t hold Mahmoud Khalil; the Head of FEMA's storm response center is leaving the agency amid a leadership exodus; JD Vance had a secret meeting in Montana with the Fox News Murdochs this week; the Trump administration is backing off its plans to detain people at Guantanamo Bay; lawyers for Abrego Garcia have filed their motion for sanctions against the government; the Supreme Court is reviewing a lawsuit over an FBI raid of the wrong house in Atlanta; what to know ahead of the No Kings rally tomorrow; Trump was met with boos and drag queens during Les Miserable at the Kennedy Center; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 Today, Trump’s new lawyers argue at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to move his 34 felony count appeal to federal court; Trump’s DoJ calls Governor Newsom’s lawsuit a crass political stunt and irony immediately died; Customs and Border Protection confirms it’s flying Predator drones over Los Angeles; a new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump’s approval is sliding considerably across all issues; Trump and Kegseth screened military audience members for loyalty and weight prior to his speech at Fort Liberty (i refuse to call it Fort Bragg); Representative LaMonica McIver has been wrongfully indicted by a grand jury; a Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty on a sex crimes charge on Wednesday; they’ve resorted to paying people to attend Trump’s stupid birthday parade; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 12 June 2025

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 Today, Trump is in court to try and move his 34 felony convictions appeal to federal court; Governor Newsom asks the court for an immediate restraining order against Hegseth’s deployment of the military to California saying he has evidence troops will be used for law enforcement in violation of the law; Republican House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green is leaving Congress as soon as the Billionaire Bailout Bill passes; a data broker owned by United, American Airlines and Delta sold passenger data to Customs and Border Patrol; five lawmakers in CA and NY were unlawfully denied access to ICE detention facilities; The Wall Street Journal confirms it was Stephen Miller that recommended ICE raids at Home Depots; Trump secretly sold his stake in a crypto company according to financial records; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth has mobilized the United States Marines against American citizens in Los Angeles County; Attorney General Bonta is suing the Trump administration seeking an injunction of National Guard deployment; ABC suspends Terry Moran for a tweet calling Stephen Miller a world class hater; a former Afghan soldier was arrested by ICE in Houston and stripped of his asylum protections; Pam Bondi’s brother gets TROUNCED in the DC Bar Association election; Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting the Freedom Flotilla boat carrying aid and supplies; NIH employees publish the Bethesda declaration in dissent of Trump’s cuts; RFK Jr ousts the entire CDC vaccination advisory committee; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Monday, June 9th, 2025 Today, Trump and Kegseth mobilize the National Guard against peaceful protesters in Los Angeles County; Abrego Garcia is back on US soil after being hit with trumped up criminal charges over a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee; San Antonio police walk back their statements about the murder of Jonathan Joss not being a hate crime; the Trump regime scrambles to rehire wrongfully terminated federal employees; the Supreme Court has rejected a Republican bid to throw out provisional ballots in Pennsylvania; the high court has also left in place a ban on high capacity firearms in DC; a West Virginia prosecutor is warning that women who experience miscarriages could be criminally charged; the Boulder Colorado suspect who is already facing nearly 120 criminal charges appeared in court for a federal hate crime charge; Tesla is seeking to block the city of Austin from releasing records on the robotaxi trial; the Supreme Court has allowed DOGE access to our Social Security data and has allowed DOGE to keep records private; 13 House Republicans urge their colleagues in the Senate to block some climate cuts in the Billionaire Bailout Bill that they voted for; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

Monday, June 6th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Trump advisor Pete Navarro has been indicted and arrested for criminal contempt of congress; simultaneously, the DoJ told the committee they would NOT be indicting Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino for criminal contempt; a Pence aide told his secret service lead that Pence could be at risk the day before the attack on the capitol; and strategy memos prepared for Republican candidates advised them to “ignore guns and talk inflation” after the Uvalde shooting. Follow our guest: Glenn Kirschner

Transcribed - Published: 8 June 2025

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Trump’s lawyers met Monday with special counsel Jack Smith and other DoJ officials to discuss the documents case; CNN reports that the maintenance worker who asked the Mar-a-Lago IT guy about the surveillance footage accidentally flooded the server room where they were kept; Jared Kushner’s $2 Billion Saudi check appears even more comically corrupt than previously thought; US Senators are questioning Twitter’s privacy compliance under Elon; a former spy convicted of spying on the US for Russia, Robert Hanssen, has been found dead in his prison cell; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2025

Friday, June 6th, 2025 Today, the Trump-Musk feud explodes on their social media platforms as Musk calls for Trump’s impeachment and threatens to release information about Donald and Epstein; CDC’s top Covid vaccine advisor resigns after RFK Jr says he’ll remove it from vaccination schedules; a federal judge orders the reinstatement of the AmeriCorps program in 24 states; Trump reinstates an expanded travel ban that includes 19 countries, he also blocked international students from studying at Harvard and settled a six hour long lawsuit with himself in Texas; Trump officials delayed a report of farm trade data over deficit forecasts; the Supreme Court sides with a straight white woman claiming reverse discrimination; four states petition the FDA to lift abortion pill restrictions; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis grants a motion to unseal Abrego Garcia documents and grants his lawyers their motion to file for sanctions against Trump’s stonewalling; economists are raising questions about the validity of US inflation data; the President has enacted 50% steel tariffs and then quickly TACOed them for the UK; a federal judge has tossed the Democratic Party lawsuit challenging Trump’s FEC order; the Tennessee assistant district attorney has been charged with assaulting woman multiple times; a federal appeals court refuses to lift the block on mass layoffs at the Department of Education; young Democrat Kieshan Scott trounces his Republican opponent winning a South Carolina state house seat; South Korea’s liberal party candidate won the snap election Tuesday; the Trump administration rescinds the Biden era policy requiring hospitals to provide reproductive emergency health care; Kennedy center subscription sales fall 36% since Trump took over; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2025

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 Today, a federal judge rules that prisons must continue to provide gender affirming care to transgender inmates; FEMA staff was left confused after the director said he was unaware that there’s a hurricane season; the Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered scientists NOT to publish in medical journals without permission from the administration; Jonathan Joss from King of the Hill and Parks and Rec was murdered in his neighborhood in what his husband describes as a hate crime; Poland narrowly elects the Trumpian candidate in a global reversal of recent elections; Mayor Ras Baraka is suing Alina Habba and ICE for false arrest and vindictive prosecution; DOGE is actually making government less efficient and more expensive; Trump is weighing new names for Navy ships; Musk blasts the Billionaire Bailout Bill on social media; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 Today, the cost to repair the roads after Trump rolls his birthday tanks out on June 14 will be upwards of $16M; the Mayor of Tulsa has unveiled a $105M reparations plan to address the impact of the Tulsa Massacre; law firms that bent the knee to Trump are seeing big clients head for the door; the Department of Homeland Security has removed a list of sanctuary cities from its website after the Sheriffs’ Association complained; the Supreme Court has left in place Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic military style rifles and Rhode Island’s ban on large capacity magazines; a group of Senate deficit hawks and Medicaid moderate Republicans threatens the Billionaire Bailout Bill; a federal judge has blocked Trump from nixing union bargaining for TSA employees; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Monday, June 2nd, 2025 Today, Ukraine destroyed more than 40 military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia; the new Office of Personnel Management hiring plan includes loyalty essays; ICE raids a restaurant on a Friday night in San Diego and uses flash-bang grenades to disperse the protesting crowd; Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to assassinate Trump but that appears to have been a set up; Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory on Truth Social saying Biden was executed in 2020 and the man that was President until 2025 is a robot clone; top officials overseeing deportations at ICE are leaving their positions; a Women is suing Kansas over a law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy; Dan Bongino and Kash Patel say video shows that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide; Elon Musk denies a report that he took so much ketamine he doesn’t pee right; the CDC keeps recommending Covid vaccines for children in defiance of RFK Jr; a Reagan appointed judge orders the Trump administration to fund Radio Free Europe; PBS has filed suit against the Trump regime for first amendment violations; the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reject’s Trump’s bid to move forward with massive federal government reductions in force; California opens an inquiry into Paramount and Trump; the government has ended a critical HIV vaccine effort; elderly and disabled Californians with more than $2,000 could lose Medi-Cal; a Jeffrey Epstein survivor is suing the FBI for failing to address her claims; Taylor Swift gets her music back; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes: John Eastman reveals in a court filing which email was subject to the crime fraud exception; Lin Wood loses his appeal to block the Georgia bar association’s mental health probe videotapes reveal the GOP’s plans to subvert elections; the Texas school police chief is ignoring state investigators questions about the Uvalde shooting, and a judge rejects Sarah Palin’s nonsense again; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Adam Klasfeld

Transcribed - Published: 1 June 2025

Refried Beans | GUILTY (feat. John Fugelsang) | May 31, 2024 Friday, May 31st, 2024 Donald Trump has been found GUILTY on all 34 felony counts in the election interference trial; John Roberts rejects Senators Whitehouse and Durbin’s request for a meeting over the Alito flags; a former Apprentice producer says Trump used the N word during production and it’s on tape; the New Republic has gotten it’s hands on an Erik Prince group chat; a Republican has blocked the confirmation of the first Native American federal judge in Montana; Molly Cook holds on to her Houston-based Texas Senate seat; the MLB has integrated the Negro League statistics into the record book; Biden secretly gave permission to Ukraine to strike inside Russia; plus Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2025

Friday, May 30th, 2025 Today, the international trade court paused Trump’s tariffs but the Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stopped the pause; Paramount has offered $15 Million to settle it’s CBS lawsuit over the Kamala Harris interview but Trump wants more; the White House health report included fake citations; a federal judge has extended the block on Trump’s bid to block international students from Harvard; the US says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students; Trump’s Air Force One deal with Qatar is long from being finalized; Trump has clawed back $700M from HHS that it planned to use to develop a bird flu vaccine; the man who threatened Democratic election officials in Colorado is sentenced to three years in prison; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

Thursday, May 29th, 2025 Today, a federal judge STRIKES DOWN Trump's entire executive order targeting the Wilmer Hale law firm for political retribution; Judge Chutkan allows a lawsuit seeking to enjoin Elon Musk and DOGE's operations to proceed; another federal judge has ordered the release of the Russian scientist that brought inert frog embryos into the US; yet another judge blocks Trump’s attempt to stop congestion pricing in New York; immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to El Salvador potentially cutting off their return; the Government Accountability Office rebuffs Trump’s power grab; another SpaceX Starship launch fails while Musk cries about people not liking him; U-Haul bans Patriot Front nazis after they rented their trucks for a march in Kansas City; the Tate brothers have been charged with rape and sex trafficking in the UK; Nancy Mace’s former staff claim she had them create burner accounts to promote her online; Trump gets mad about the Wall Street acronym TACO during a press conference; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2025

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis fires back at the Trump administration for asking for another unwarranted 30 day delay; NPR is suing the Trump administration over funding cuts; Temu Trump Senator Tommy Tuberville has launched a bid for Governor of Alabama; RFK Jr says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for health children and pregnant people; Congressman Andy Ogles confirms an investigation into the Nashville Mayor’s Office; Trump has pardoned a Virginia sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges and a tax cheat after his mom attended a million dollar dinner at Mar a Lago; the Trump administration pauses new visa interviews as it weighs a social media vetting program; Trump announces a $2.5B bitcoin treasury scam; a suspect has been arrested in a bitcoin kidnapping and torture case; Trump cuts all federal funding to Harvard University; man feared to be cognitively slipping after writing book about wrong president; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 Today, documents reveal disarray at the Department of Veterans Affairs imperiling patient care; veterans balk at Trump’s plans to end protections from Afghans deportations; a new Texas bill forces schools to display the ten commandments; Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo and not South Africa; leader Schumer has announced Democrats will unanimously vote against the Billionaire Bailout Bill; more on the Supreme Court decision in Trump v Wilcox; how to rain on Trump’s June 14th military parade; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

Monday, May 26th, 2025 Today, federal judges weigh taking control of the US Marshals amid threats from the Trump administration; President Zelensky condemns US silence after a massive Russian drone and missile strike; a federal judge orders the Trump administration to return a wrongfully disappeared Guatemalan man; Trump signed orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from removing medical research papers from an HHS database over references to transgender people; a federal judge has halted the Trump administration ban on Harvard’s ability to enroll international students; the food sucked and security was lax at Trump’s $148M memecoin dinner; the Navy reverses course on their diversity equity and inclusion book ban; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2025

Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the 1/6 committee has announced its hearing schedule for June; an ashamed Russian diplomat resigns his post in protest of Putin’s war; the House ethics committee launches an investigation into Madison Cawthorn for insider trading and sexual misconduct; and the Sussman Durham trial is well underway; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2025

Monday, May 20th, 2024 David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, but there’s a flag on the play; Brent Bozell IV was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in the insurrection; how redistricting battles could impact the 2024 election; Minnesota Republicans back Royce White to run against Amy Klobuchar; a helicopter carrying Iran’s President and foreign minister has crashed; a Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2025

Friday, May 23rd, 2025 Today, House Republicans voted to pass the Billionaire Bailout Bill gutting Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance and climate tax credits to pay for tax cuts for the ultra wealthy; a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education; another federal judge blocked Trump from revoking international students’ legal status; minutes before that - the Trump administration blocked Harvard from enrolling international students; the White House has purged transcripts of Trump’s remarks from its website; two Israel embassy staffers were shot at close range after an event in DC outside the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday night; the full DC Circuit panel has allowed Trump to defund the Voice of America; DHS staffers quit over Kristi Noem’s four hour polygraph loyalty tests; surprise surprise Musk's SpaceX is the frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield; Greenland has signed a mineral deal with Europe; Tim Walz says it would be a mistake for Democrats to abandon trans people; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 Today, the Pentagon has officially accepted the illegal $400M emolument plane from Qatar; a federal judge held a hearing on the men disappeared to South Sudan and found the government violated a court order; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of a privacy oversight board; hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing under Trump policies; Sean Duffy sold stocks right before Trump announced his tariffs; ICE is now dismissing pending immigration cases so they can re-arrest people and remove them faster; a CEO says Trump’s IRS pick promised big benefits; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2025

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 Today, Trump prosecutors have dropped the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, but have arrested and charged Congresswoman LaMonica McIver; Trump’s Gestapo Czar doesn’t know what habeas corpus is; the Supreme Court allows Maine Rep Libby to vote again despite her censure by the legislature for transphobic comments; USAID cuts leaves food for millions rotting in storage; a federal appeals court leaves in place an order requiring the Trump administration to return Daniel Lozano-Camargo to the US after having sent him there in violation of a legal settlement; Republicans in Congress have decided to phase out Biden’s clean energy tax credits to make more room for billionaire tax cuts; the Senate has confirmed convicted felon Charles Kushner to be the ambassador of France; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2025

Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court allows DHS to reinstate secretary Kristi Noem’s order ending temporary status for Venezuelans resulting in the single largest mass illegalization event in US history; Judge Beryl Howell stops Trump from dismantling the US Institute of Peace; a top CBS executive has resigned amid Trump’s political pressure; House Republicans manage to get the Billionaire Bailout Bill out of committee; the far right Romanian candidate for president has LOST his election; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

Monday, May 19th, 2025 Today, the supreme court extends it’s temporary block on the removal of detainees in the Northern District of Texas under the Alien Enemies Act proclamation; the Republican bill for billionaires is killed in committee; Trump’s FEMA admits it has no plan for hurricane season; DHS asks for 20K National Guard troops to assist ICE; HHS reinstates hundreds of health care workers; an appeals court has lifted the block on Trump’s executive order targeting federal worker unions; the DoJ is going to permit the sale of a device that turns guns into automatic weapons; a car bomb explodes at a Palm Springs fertility clinic; Georgia is forcing a brain dead woman to carry her pregnancy to term; Kegseth tricks transgender troops into health checks that will get them kicked out of the military; the government is planning on moving a million Gazans to Libya; Moody’s downgrades the US credit rating for the first time; a freshman at Yarmouth High School pens a letter in support of trans athletes; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

Monday, May 15th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Rep. George Santos has admitted to his fraud in Brazil to avoid prosecution in absentia; former Marine Daniel Penny has been charged with manslaughter in a choking death on the New York subway; a porn-friendly bank wants to help fund Trump’s Truth Social; a House Republican report finds no evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden; Durham’s investigation has ended with nothing to show for it; Trump gets schooled again by a federal judge; questions linger over what CNN offered Trump in exchange for his town hall last week; plus AG and Ben Folds deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2025

Monday, May 16th, 2022 Ten people are dead after a white supremacist domestic terrorist opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket; John Eastman loses again; the 1/6 committee subpoenas Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson for a third interview; we now know why the DoJ had to subpoena the National Archives for the 15 boxes of top secret documents Donald stole; and a court finds that Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy to avoid paying restitution to Sandy Hook families in their defamation suit; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2025